Tool-storing device for automobiles



R. H. COLLINS.

TOOL STORING DEVICE FOR AUTOMOBILES.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 5, I920.

Patent ed 00h 3L 1922.,

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RICHARD H. COLLINS, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO GENERAL MOTORS COR- JPORATION, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

TOOL-STORING DEVICE FOR AUTOMOBILES.

Application filed May 5, 1920. Serial No. 379,108.

To ll whom it may concern: v

Be it known that I, RICHARD H. COLLINS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Detroit, county of Wayne, and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tool- Storing Devices for Automobiles, of which the following is a full, clear, concise, and exact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which the invention relates to make and use the same, reference being made therein to the accompanying drawings, which .form a part of this specification.

My invention relates to automobiles and similar self-propelled vehicles, and particularly to means for storing the tools commonly furnished with and used about such vehicle for making minor repairs in such a manner that the tools willbe securely stored when not in use, while at the same time they are readily accessible if and when occasion for their use arises.

The principal object of my invention is to provide an improved storage compartment associated with a door of the vehicle, together with a tool, holding envelope adapted to lie within said compartment when the tools are not in use; my invention being illustrated in the drawing and here in described as associated with a vertically swinging door which closes a compartment 2 at the rear end of the body of the vehicle,

although my invention may be applied to and used in connection with doors otherwise arran ed relative to the vehicle body.

A urther object of my invention is to provide improved tool storing means comprising a storage compartment secured to a door of the vehicle and within which compartment a separate envelope in which various tools are held may be secured in place, in

' such a way as to be easily removable from said receptacle or compartment, so that the envelope as a whole may be; readily removed from the compartment in which it is stored and taken to the side or front of the vehicle; thus rendering all the tools accessible in a convenient manner and providing a holding envelope in which all are stored when not in use, and at the same timemade available for removal to and use at any place about the vehicle. i

With the above and other objectsof invention in view, my invention consists in the improved storage compartment or revelope associated therewith for holding the tools-illustrated in the accompanying drawings and hereinafter described and claimed; and in such variations and -modifications thereof, within the scope of the concluding claims, as will be obvious to those skilled in the art to which my invention relates.

Referring now to the drawing wherein the preferred embodiment of my invention is illustrated:

Figure 1 is a view showing the rear end of a motor vehicle body in elevation with a door or cover which closes a compartment in the rear of the said body open, so as to illustrate the manner in which my inven tion is associated with a door of the vehicle body. I 5

Figure 2 is a view showing the tool holding envelope of my tool holding device remay be secured in place within the recep tacle or pocket provided for its reception.

Referring now to the drawing: The reference numeral 5 designates an automobile body having a rear compartment 6 provided with an openingthrough which access may be had thereinto, and which opening is closed by a door 7 pivotally supported by hinges indicated by the reference numeral 8; the door being supported along its further edge, regarded from a position to the rear of-the vehicle, so that the same swings upward and forward when access is to be had to the compartment or space in the rear end of the vehicle body. A suitable toggle brace 9 is provided for holding the door in in which a tool containing or storing envelope indicated as a whole by the-reference numeral 12 in Figure 1 is stored when the tools are 'not in use.

The tool holding envelope isshown sepioo . arate and byitself in Figures 2 and 3 and 3 of the drawing. Said envelope also comprises two end flaps 15, 15 which may be folded over and made to lie on top'of the tools, and the inner ends of which maybe fastened together by co-operating separable fastening members 16; while other flaps 17 are connected with and extend from the side portions of the said base portion 13 and which last. mentioned flaps may also'be folded over and made to overlie the tools and the flaps 15, the free edges of said flaps 17 being likewise provided with co-operating pairs of separable fastening members 18, 18 which maybe made to engage with one another, to thereby detachably hold said free edges together and provide a complete enclosing envelope or casing for the tools,

Secured to the envelope 12 within. which the tools are contained, and preferably to one of the triangular flaps 15 thereof, is a tongue 19, which tongue projects from the top portion, or edge of the envelope when the same is closed andfastened in the manner above pointed; out; the free end of said tongue being-provided with'a separable fastening member which may be made to engage with a co-operating fastening member located upon the offset wall 10 of the receptacle or pocket within which the envelope V is placed, as indicated'by the reference numeral 20 in Figure 1, to thereby hold the envelope as a whole in pl ac'e within the receptacleprovided for its reception upon the inner surface of the door 7.

It will be appreciated that after the flaps of the envelope have been folded inward and made to overlie. the tools and to'overlie one another and the free edges of said flaps properly secured together',--as hereinbefore,

explained, the entire envelope may be placed within the receptacle or compartment pro vided for its reception upon the inner surface of the door; and held in place within said compartment by the tonguet19 and the.

separable fastening means 20 above referred to, and readily removed from said compart ment when the tools are to be used. The envelope within which the toolsare con tained willthusbe held in a pocket provided for its reception and the said tools kept together and easily accessible in case they have to be used, the envelope with the tools within thesame being, removed from the compartment in question and taken to the vicinity inwhich they are to be used if and when 1t becomes necessary tensethe tools or anyof them.

It will be appreciated that invention may be appliedto a door other than an upwardly swinging door employed to close a compartment at the rear end of the vehiclebody; that securing members of any ment in the door may be directed toward] a free edge other than that opposite the hin es. I l-faving thus described and explained my invention, 1 claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent i j 1. In combination in an automobilebody, a rear compartment having an opening closed by-a pivotally supported and upwardly swinging door; a sheet metal plate secured to "the mnensurface of said door and the central portion of which plate is offset, to thereby provide a receptacle or compartment open at the end thereof which is uppermost when the door is open; a tool containing envelope adapted to fit within said compartment and comprising a body portion or base having pockets to receive tools, and two pairs of oppositely located flaps adapted to fold upon and overlie said tools and to overlie one another; a tongue secured to said envelope adjacent the end.

thereof which is uppermost when the same is in place within saidcompartment; and co-operating fastening members, one carried by said tongue and the other located adjacent'the upper end of said receptacle ceptacle or compartment secured to the in ner side of said door and open at the end I thereof which is uppermost when the door is open; a tool containingenvelope adapted to ,fit within said compartment and comprising a body portion having pockets to receive tools, and flaps adapted "to fold upon'and or compartment, and which fastening memoverlie said tools; a tongue carried by said envelope; and co-operating fastening mem bers one carried by saidtongue and the other located adjacent the upper end of said receptacle-or compartment, and which fasneeeeeo 'place within said compartment.

3. In combination in an nntomobile hotly, a. reel compartment having on opening closed by e: pivoeally supported and up.

weirdly swinging door; as receptacle or compartmenl upon the inner side of sold doorand' which compartment is open at the end thereof which is upnermosl; when the door is open; elnool containing envelope odlepleml to lie ithin seiol oompermenl; nndl comprising o body portion or base having pockets to reoeiy e laools, and; flops adopted to fold and overlie said tools; and means for boldling sold envelpe in place wit'nbin soidl oompairtment, said means being of such e choir-v meter that said envelope may be readily removed from said compel-lament.

lln testimony whereof I ofix my signature.

RIGHARD n. 00mins. 

